NFL Draft Diamonds Prospect Interview: Dante Shells, WR, Liberty University
NFL Draft Diamonds website has been providing our readers Prospect Interviews over the past 3 years and this year we mixed things up a bit. Our questions are designed to give our readers a little more insight on the draft eligible player. We hope to bring you more than 500 interviews of NFL Draft Prospects this season. You will be able to track them all on the front page of our website in the banner to the right. Now let’s meet our next prospect!!!!
What is your name?
Dante Shells
What is your Height/Weight?
6’2 193
What is your position?
WR
Where do you play college football?
Liberty University
Football is about giving back, what is the coolest thing you have done off the field?
Helping a less fortunate kid that worked at goodwill come to one of the Liberty Football games and gave him some LU gear
What was the hardest college class you have ever had to take?
Philosophy 221
Where are you from?
Scotchplains, NJ
Who is your role model, and why?
Grandfather, Prime example of what being a man takes and backbone of my family
Did you play any other sports growing up?
Basketball, baseball, ran track & field
Did you play any other position in football?
Defensive Back
At your position, what separates you from others?
Deceptiveness
When you are breaking down film, what do you look for?
Tendencies, type of player by position. Tendencies and critiques of myself! Not tipping off my defenders
If you could compare your play to one player in the NFL who would it be and why?
Randy Moss, gets behind the defense
What was the biggest obstacle in your life you had to overcome, and how did you overcome it?
The passing of my father. Family was all we had
Do you have any pre-game rituals?
Talking to my father
What is your biggest strength?
Speed, getting up on defenders quick
What is your biggest weakness?
Elusiveness
If I were a GM and gave you a second to sell yourself, what would you say?
I am a serious competitor outworking the next man all the time ready to turn the heads of all GM’s asking their scouts why nobody has mentioned this guy
Who was your favorite player and/or NFL team growing up?
Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson/ Dallas Cowboys
If you could have dinner with three people dead or alive, who would you choose?
My Father, Grandfather (Dad’s dad) & little cousin Shawny
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